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- AOTA mourns the loss of Fred Sammons (11/21/25)
- AOTA Hill Day 2025: A record-breaking day of advocating together (9/30/25)
- AOTA welcomes new Board of Directors members (7/1/25)
- AOTA, AOTF name first-ever recipient of Lands Banks Memorial Scholarship (4/23/25)
- AOTA Lends its Voice to the FDA Health Care Hub’s Idea Lab to Help Reimagine How Medical Technologies Can Be Incorporated Into the Home (1/15/25)
- AOTA Empowers Older Drivers and Their Families During Older Driver Safety Awareness Week (11/27/2024)
- AOTA's Fund to Promote Awareness of OT Awarded $200K from the Sandra Hoskins Legacy Foundation (11/04/2024)
- AOTA to Celebrate World OT Day(10/24/2024)
- AOTA Recognizes Falls Prevention Awareness Week: Sept. 23-27, 2024(09/20/2024)
- AOTA Recognizes Pediatric Feeding Disorder Awareness Month with Feeding Matters (05/01/2024)
- FDA Health Care at Home Initiative Identifies Occupational Therapy as a Key Need (04/25/2024)
- April is Occupational Therapy (OT) Month (04/01/2024)
- AOTA Announces Katie Jordan as the New Executive Director (03/14/2024)
- Orlando to Host 7,000+ Occupational Therapy Practitioners at AOTA INSPIRE 2024 Annual Conference & Expo (03/13/2024)
- AOTA Spotlights Black Occupational Therapy Practitioners During Black History Month (02/15/2024)
- Medicare Home Health Accessibility Act introduced in the 118th Congress (01/30/2024)
- AOTA Announces First-Ever Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, Access, and Belonging Team (1/9/2024)
- AOTA Recognizes Poverty Awareness Month (1/4/2024)
- AOTA Partners with National Organizations for Older Driver Safety Awareness Week (11/30/2023)
- AOTA Recognizes Alzheimer's Awareness Month (11/10/2023)
- AOTA Celebrates National Veterans and Military Families Month (11/08/2023)
- AOTA to celebrate World Occupational Therapy Day (10/20/2023)
- International Backpack Awareness Day focuses on proper usage (10/20/2023)
- OpEd: We disagree with Florida. That’s why we’re holding our conference there (10/08/2023)
- AOTA Past President Mary Foto, OT, FAOTA, CCM, Passes Away (09/18/2023)
- American Occupational Therapy Association Releases Post-Dobbs Task Force Report (08/10/2023)
- American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) Announces Interim Executive Director (07/11/2023)
- American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) Announces Retirement of Executive Director (05/18/2023)
- Lack of Men of Color Graduating From the Health Professions Declared a Crisis by Association CEOs (05/11/2023)
- DEI Highlights of the AOTA INSPIRE 2023 Annual Conference and Expo (04/11/2023)
- Kansas City to Host 10,000 Occupational Therapy Practitioners at Annual Conference and Expo (03/27/2023)
- Home Health Flexibility Act Enables Occupational Therapists to Open Medicare Home Health Cases
- Congressional Therapy Champions Introduce Bill to Make Occupational Therapy Practitioners Permanent Telehealth Providers
- Navigating Back-to-School in the Era of COVID-19

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